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...this fertile ground that Death Star, Get Shorty and their kin were planted. These two strategies were particularly devious. In the former, Enron was being paid for taking away excess energy that it never really put in, while in the latter, it was buying and selling commitments it never made. This kind of trade, known as "gaming" the market, is prohibited by the California ISO's regulations, but because there were seven different energy markets the ISO had to keep tabs on and because it is so difficult to pin down whether a company has the energy it says...
...while the first boat must finish in the top two to reach the finals, the second boat needs only a top-three finish. The former will see fifth-seeded Yale, eighth-seeded Dartmouth, eleventh-seeded Wisconsin and fourteenth-seeded Syracuse in its opening race, while the latter faces third-seeded Northeastern, sixth-seeded Yale and seventh-seeded...
...some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...continuing refusal to recognize and bargain with the union showcases its priorities: pocketbooks over principle. The RAs are students employed by the university, performing services for which they are paid a certain amount. In the relationship between the university administration and the RAs—the latter represented by their democratically selected union—power should not rest solely on the side of the administration...
...latter was an example of something we can expect to see a lot of at this year's upfronts: The 9/11 Moment. NBC's West Coast President Scott Sassa, in between pitches about NBC's "upscale audience," waxed self-serving about how NBC salved the nation's wounds after 9/11: "Like so many life-changing moments... it was television that brought us there [to the disaster]. After Sept. 11, Americans tuned in to ease the pain, and NBC was there." You may not have known in how many ways NBC helped to salve your wounds. For instance, the portrayals...